The expression cooked "al dente" means "to the tooth." What this means is that the pasta should be somewhat firm, and offer some resistance to the tooth, but should also be tender.

A person can live without food for about a month, but only about a week without water.

The name of the popular search engine 'Google' came from a misspelling of the word 'googol', which is a very, very large number (the number one followed by one hundred zeros to be exact).

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